Stability in Paternoster Square

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The dual swoop of Dubai and Qatar on the London Stock Exchange has, curiously enough, made the British bourse safer from predators than anything that HM Treasury has ever done for it. Paternoster Square has become a pawn in the battle for financial supremacy between the Great Powers of the Gulf: both Dubai and Qatar want to boast the banking hub of the region and will not allow the other to dominate London. So, with almost half of the London Stock Exchange share register controlled by two warring parties, this is as close to stability as Paternoster Square has seen